One person is either maimed or killed by a mine every 20 minutes. . This happened because the political will existed to remove the landmines. . take the lead in providing the money, equipment and training needed to remove landmines.

Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in . Coal and debris are removed using enormous earth-moving machines known as . it may take hundreds of years for a forest to re-establish itself on the mine site.